The NASA Ames-based instrument 4STAR (Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) team has formed a new partnership with the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) to integrate the instrument onto the Canadian airborne platform, Convair 580. BAER Institute Research Scientist Samuel…
BAER Institute scientist, Ann Marie Cody, is an avid runner and the mother of triplets. She‘s sometimes seen running through the NASA Ames campus at noon with her children strapped into a 3-seated stroller. On April 15, 2018, she broke…
Robert Comstock of Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo, and Sean Lam, University of Washington, have achieved the first simulations of an Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) aircraft that will support a variety of aerodynamic analyses in support of future science missions.…
Members of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC) recently returned from Ramstein, Germany, after supporting a joint research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Adam Webster (Mission Director), Kelly Edmond (Mission Director-in-training), Dave van Gilst (data system and Satcom…
BAER Institute's Dr. Irina Kitiashvili of the Heliophysics Modelling and Simulation Project at NASA Ames served as the primary convener of “Advances in Observations, Data-Constrained Modeling, and Predictions of Solar Activity from the Deep Interior to the Corona” at the…
This past summer, thirty-two undergraduate students completed a NASA summer internship designed to provide them with an airborne Earth science research experience. The NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is run by the National Suborbital Research Center at the BAER…
BAER Institute participants in the recent ORACLES mission received recognition for their invaluable service to this Earth Venture Science mission. The breadth of talent included efficient logistics management, weather forecasting, and maintaining reliable instrument performance. The dedication of BAERI scientists…
BAER Institute’s Dr. Partha Bera, along with Alexander Tielens of Leiden University, in the Netherlands, recently hosted an international symposium at the American Chemical Society’s fall national meeting at Washington DC. The symposium, held August 20 to 24, 2017, covered,…
NASA has agreed to fund a team of scientists (Dr. Ved Chirayath-PI, Dr. Alan Li-Co-I, Dr. Kamalika Das, Co-I), including Dr. Michal Segal Rozenhaimer from BAER as Co-Investigator to study aquatic ecosystems, particularly coral reefs using recently developed remote sensing…
Today, June 23 2017, the breakthrough results “On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves” appeared in the journal Science. This work was produced as part of a collaboration led by BAER’s Dr. J. Martínez-Sykora with Prof. Bart De…